Although the film, “Inherit the Wind”, uses the Monkey trial as the starting point it was never meant to be a documentary of that trial. The film was based on the stage play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee as a statement against McCarthyism – not religion vs. science. However it offers a good look at the still constant struggle of science against religious fundamentalism.
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Rep. Bill Sali invoked the Founding Fathers to support his ignorant comments about church and state issues recently. It seems that three Founding Fathers responded to Sali.
I wonder how someone like Rep. Bill Sali is competent to serve in Congress when he lacks a basic knowledge of the Constitution and US history. It would be like letting a stranger off the street practice medicine just because he owns a stethoscope.
Kathleen Johnson, Military Director, American Atheists, who is deployed right now in Iraq, sent this note talking about a disturbing incident that took place at Forward Operating Base in Iraq recently. An Army Major attend a meeting of the Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers, said he was a Freethinker then used his rank to shut the meeting down and threaten the attendees with punishment.